my handgun is just an augmentation for AR15, AK-clones, FAL, etc.
The next revolution won't be in the model of the American Revolution. It will be in the model of Cuba and Ireland. It will be guerrilla and the pocket-pieces will definitely help.
The problem is that the American "left" are a bunch of violence-adverse hippies who are too pussy to be real revolutionaries, and most of the people who actually have the guns are too dumb to figure out how to run a guerrilla campaign -- starting with not declaring intentions that are impalletable to the majority of the population whom you will rely upon for support.
The LAST thing we need in office is more lawyers. Lawyers get elected, then spend their time crafting laws that one needs a law degree to understand, so that when they go back to private practice, they have more business.
Similarly, the tax code was clearly drafted by accountants -- and that's just crap. I'm not likely to need to know how to beat a murder rap, cause chances are I'm not going to kill someone. I have to pay taxes, though -- and the second you have more than one source of income the complexity multiplies exponentially and you need an accountant. Bull shit.
Military officers and doctors make the best candidates, imo, because military officers are sworn to defend the constitution and know the meaning of honor and loyalty (ideally). Lawyers, on the other hand, are trained to get away with murder (literally). Doctors, similarly, are sworn to help people and the laws they draft are usually pretty straight forward, mean what they say, and anyone with a public school education (even these days) can understand them.
I thought about going to law school, but then I realized that the public would have a higher opinion of me, and I'd sleep better at night, if I joined the mafia instead.
I think if Intel were really interested, they could force MS to follow suit. The problem, so long as AMD is willing to run the compatibility mode, Microsoft doesn't have to change -- and that means that Intel would have to lose out, at least in the home market.
I have little doubt that Intel could force a change on servers and corporate desktops, and Linux, BSD and Solaris, as well as Apple, would be able to adjust within a very short period of time to run on it.
Well, pretty much... GNU is UNIX done the MIT way. MIT are LISP-addicts, which is why GNU stuff uses Scheme (via GUILE) for scripting and extensions, and EMACS is pretty much just a LISP machine in and of itself.
that was the sound chamber in the nasal cavity... and that was a commercial device. The point of these things is that hobbyists can build them at home and use them to build other things. Now that computers have become so comodified and commercial, we need something new and exciting to play with.
I'll be 24 in 17 days... but I have a slide rule and 2 Jepsen flight computers (circular slide rules) in addition to 2 ti-83s, a ti-86 and a ti-89. Math tools rock.
The people who make the policy failed math and think everyone else should have, too, cause it was hard. if the next generation is smarter than them, they don't like it. if the next generation is dumb, too -- time to blame the teachers and get revenge!
back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s kids got a slide rule, protractor, compass, and graphing pad. Now it's ti-83+ for algebra class and the ti-89 has more computing power than the original Macintosh.
doing the math is going to be easier, even if they didn't ask harder questions. However, the amount of automation these days means that most people aren't ever going to have to do the harder math in their daily lives.
Slashdotters are an anomaly because our careers and interests require us to do maths all the time. If the future historians are allowed to slack off on their trig tests, so what? They weren't going to be engineers anyway.
They probably should track out classes more than just "regular" and "honors/AP" though. That way the future nobel prize winning poet who is an over acheiver and the future NASA scientist don't have to compete for the teacher's attention to detail in Calculus.
One of the founders of IBM, something-or-other Watson, once said that he only foresaw a market for a handful of computers in the whole world and that practically no one would ever need one.
I think that would have been a much more apt comparison to the "no one would ever need a modem" comment. Then again, what would Slashdot be without MS bashing?
I think the year was 1990 or 1991 -- I was about 6 or 7. On a tour of the school library, the librarian made a point of telling us about the modem they had connected to the computer in the library.
I had an old Leading Edge computer at home, running DOS 2.0. I asked if it were possible for someone to dial into the library's computer and erase their overdue fines.
Thus was ended the tour of the library, and the modem was never mentioned again.
I haven't even bothered trying to mess with the nVidia driver -- generic vga displays just fine. Then again, I'm using WindowMaker and have no intention of messing with compiz. i tried it on mint, but it kept crashing... i don't even care if i'm wasting 512mb of video ram...
PC-BSD will auto-detect and install nvidia; it started the nvidia crap when i put up a livecd on my laptop the other day, but i didn't install it 'cause I don't want to fuss with removing all the KDE stuff.
I don't have any experience with Subversion, so I don't know if this is going to be "better" or not -- but will CVSup still work more or less the same once the migration is complete?
Being Indian doesn't need to be compensated for. However, had he stayed Hindu, it wouldn't help McCain at all.
"Social Conservatives" and the Religious Reich already tear the crap out of McCain for not being "one of them" in the way that Huckabee was. Those are the ones that are threatening to stay home on election day.
If Jindal had stayed Hindu that would have been the straw that broke the camel's back for them. That he takes his religion seriously, and reaches out to other denominations as well, would be a particular benefit for him.
Just remember all the flap over Romney being Mormon? And he was otherwise competent as well... well, as competent has he could be for being essentially a Republican version of John Kerry. I didn't vote for him, but not because he was Mormon.
My S&W 1911 feeds Federal Premium low-recoil hollow-points perfectly well. A lot of that has to do with the magazine -- I use Wilson Combat mags, which are ~$35 a piece, but worth it.
the 9mm is just a short.38-special. The reason that the Army went to the 1911 is because the Colt.38 didn't have the stopping power in the Philippines. Its perfectly fine.
But yes..40SW or.357SIG have superior ballistics. There just isn't much more classic than the 1911.
... but is it open source? Yes! Screenshot: http://google-gadgets-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/images/ggl-standalone.jpg There are many reasons for me to hate Google. Their commitment to Linux and Open Source makes me look past all of them! Isn't that like a woman saying, "I know he beats me, but he bought me a nice car so I'll stay" ?
It really ought to take a little more to impress you. Actually, it's more like, "He is the political opposite of me, he pees on the toilet seat and treats our neighbors like shit, but he treats me well and buys me a nice car, so I'll stay." Yeah, but that pretty much describes every relationship, though. I don't know why people don't get urinals installed in their homes...
... but is it open source? Yes! Screenshot: http://google-gadgets-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/images/ggl-standalone.jpg There are many reasons for me to hate Google. Their commitment to Linux and Open Source makes me look past all of them! Isn't that like a woman saying, "I know he beats me, but he bought me a nice car so I'll stay" ?
It really ought to take a little more to impress you.
I was responding to a guy who was lamenting that the Republicans, once again, came out with another fat, old white guy. I was merely pointing out that the the talk around the Hill, and the National Republican Club, is that Jindal is a serious contender for VP -- and he is neither fat, old, nor white.
He/is/ Indian -- if its "racist" to point that out, then its also racist to say that Obama would be the first "black" president. He's only half, after all.
Given her Bobby Kennedy comments, and the fact that that Johnson had JFK shot and HW Bush had Regan shot, I think there is a pretty good precident set for Obama to start thinking the safest thing for him to do is keep Hillary as far away from the line of succession as possible.
I just get a bad feeling off of him. I'll still probably vote for him though.
I work with a bunch of conservatives, but I'm not really one of them. I don't believe in God but do believe in global warming; I am pro-union, pro-environment, pro-gun, am neutral on taxes (i'm not against them, but I think the money gets spent on dumb shit. Fermi Lab should not have required a philanthropic donation, for instance), against the war, against illegal immigration...
I think the term "radical centrist" describes me pretty well -- I don't really have a moderate view on anything, i just come out in the middle due to averaging.
I don't think Obama is sincere, the company he keeps seriously leaves something to be desired, etc. Then again, the same could be said of McCain.
I was hoping the Bill Richardson would have gotten the Democrat nomination -- I really, really liked him.
Congressman, Ambassador, Secretary of Energy, 2-term governor -- he had all the experience that Hillary claimed was so important. He was also the only candidate to have a 100% NRA rating, and after he signed the concealed carry permit law in New Mexico was the first person to get one, and packs a.45 (best caliber ever!)
Obama's campaign relies on making people "feel good," McCain's campaign relies on the fact that he was in the Navy.
Navy officer trumps god damned lawyer, in my opinion -- but neither of them are Bill Richardson.
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my handgun is just an augmentation for AR15, AK-clones, FAL, etc.
The next revolution won't be in the model of the American Revolution. It will be in the model of Cuba and Ireland. It will be guerrilla and the pocket-pieces will definitely help.
The problem is that the American "left" are a bunch of violence-adverse hippies who are too pussy to be real revolutionaries, and most of the people who actually have the guns are too dumb to figure out how to run a guerrilla campaign -- starting with not declaring intentions that are impalletable to the majority of the population whom you will rely upon for support.
The LAST thing we need in office is more lawyers. Lawyers get elected, then spend their time crafting laws that one needs a law degree to understand, so that when they go back to private practice, they have more business.
Similarly, the tax code was clearly drafted by accountants -- and that's just crap. I'm not likely to need to know how to beat a murder rap, cause chances are I'm not going to kill someone. I have to pay taxes, though -- and the second you have more than one source of income the complexity multiplies exponentially and you need an accountant. Bull shit.
Military officers and doctors make the best candidates, imo, because military officers are sworn to defend the constitution and know the meaning of honor and loyalty (ideally). Lawyers, on the other hand, are trained to get away with murder (literally). Doctors, similarly, are sworn to help people and the laws they draft are usually pretty straight forward, mean what they say, and anyone with a public school education (even these days) can understand them.
I thought about going to law school, but then I realized that the public would have a higher opinion of me, and I'd sleep better at night, if I joined the mafia instead.
Lawyers fucking suck.
I think if Intel were really interested, they could force MS to follow suit. The problem, so long as AMD is willing to run the compatibility mode, Microsoft doesn't have to change -- and that means that Intel would have to lose out, at least in the home market.
I have little doubt that Intel could force a change on servers and corporate desktops, and Linux, BSD and Solaris, as well as Apple, would be able to adjust within a very short period of time to run on it.
Well, pretty much... GNU is UNIX done the MIT way. MIT are LISP-addicts, which is why GNU stuff uses Scheme (via GUILE) for scripting and extensions, and EMACS is pretty much just a LISP machine in and of itself.
I don't much care for LISP, honestly.
that was the sound chamber in the nasal cavity... and that was a commercial device. The point of these things is that hobbyists can build them at home and use them to build other things. Now that computers have become so comodified and commercial, we need something new and exciting to play with.
I'll be 24 in 17 days... but I have a slide rule and 2 Jepsen flight computers (circular slide rules) in addition to 2 ti-83s, a ti-86 and a ti-89. Math tools rock.
The people who make the policy failed math and think everyone else should have, too, cause it was hard. if the next generation is smarter than them, they don't like it. if the next generation is dumb, too -- time to blame the teachers and get revenge!
back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s kids got a slide rule, protractor, compass, and graphing pad. Now it's ti-83+ for algebra class and the ti-89 has more computing power than the original Macintosh.
doing the math is going to be easier, even if they didn't ask harder questions. However, the amount of automation these days means that most people aren't ever going to have to do the harder math in their daily lives.
Slashdotters are an anomaly because our careers and interests require us to do maths all the time. If the future historians are allowed to slack off on their trig tests, so what? They weren't going to be engineers anyway.
They probably should track out classes more than just "regular" and "honors/AP" though. That way the future nobel prize winning poet who is an over acheiver and the future NASA scientist don't have to compete for the teacher's attention to detail in Calculus.
Just a suggestion.
One of the founders of IBM, something-or-other Watson, once said that he only foresaw a market for a handful of computers in the whole world and that practically no one would ever need one.
I think that would have been a much more apt comparison to the "no one would ever need a modem" comment. Then again, what would Slashdot be without MS bashing?
I think the year was 1990 or 1991 -- I was about 6 or 7. On a tour of the school library, the librarian made a point of telling us about the modem they had connected to the computer in the library.
I had an old Leading Edge computer at home, running DOS 2.0. I asked if it were possible for someone to dial into the library's computer and erase their overdue fines.
Thus was ended the tour of the library, and the modem was never mentioned again.
That's why I use FreeBSD -- JAILS make it the law-and-order OS of choice :-p
yes, it is sort of a slow-ass bitch. I'm just dealing with it for right now. I'll probably fix it this weekend.
EMACS isn't an editor. It's a LISP machine implemented in software that happens to have a text editor program for it.
I haven't even bothered trying to mess with the nVidia driver -- generic vga displays just fine. Then again, I'm using WindowMaker and have no intention of messing with compiz. i tried it on mint, but it kept crashing... i don't even care if i'm wasting 512mb of video ram...
PC-BSD will auto-detect and install nvidia; it started the nvidia crap when i put up a livecd on my laptop the other day, but i didn't install it 'cause I don't want to fuss with removing all the KDE stuff.
I don't have any experience with Subversion, so I don't know if this is going to be "better" or not -- but will CVSup still work more or less the same once the migration is complete?
Being Indian doesn't need to be compensated for. However, had he stayed Hindu, it wouldn't help McCain at all.
"Social Conservatives" and the Religious Reich already tear the crap out of McCain for not being "one of them" in the way that Huckabee was. Those are the ones that are threatening to stay home on election day.
If Jindal had stayed Hindu that would have been the straw that broke the camel's back for them. That he takes his religion seriously, and reaches out to other denominations as well, would be a particular benefit for him.
Just remember all the flap over Romney being Mormon? And he was otherwise competent as well... well, as competent has he could be for being essentially a Republican version of John Kerry. I didn't vote for him, but not because he was Mormon.
If it weren't for the facts that A) I've already posted, and B) I haven't had mod points since 2004, you would totally be getting some.
My S&W 1911 feeds Federal Premium low-recoil hollow-points perfectly well. A lot of that has to do with the magazine -- I use Wilson Combat mags, which are ~$35 a piece, but worth it.
.38-special. The reason that the Army went to the 1911 is because the Colt .38 didn't have the stopping power in the Philippines. Its perfectly fine.
.40SW or .357SIG have superior ballistics. There just isn't much more classic than the 1911.
the 9mm is just a short
But yes.
... but is it open source? Yes! Screenshot: http://google-gadgets-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/images/ggl-standalone.jpg There are many reasons for me to hate Google. Their commitment to Linux and Open Source makes me look past all of them! Isn't that like a woman saying, "I know he beats me, but he bought me a nice car so I'll stay" ?It really ought to take a little more to impress you. Actually, it's more like, "He is the political opposite of me, he pees on the toilet seat and treats our neighbors like shit, but he treats me well and buys me a nice car, so I'll stay." Yeah, but that pretty much describes every relationship, though. I don't know why people don't get urinals installed in their homes...
... but is it open source? Yes! Screenshot: http://google-gadgets-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/images/ggl-standalone.jpg There are many reasons for me to hate Google. Their commitment to Linux and Open Source makes me look past all of them! Isn't that like a woman saying, "I know he beats me, but he bought me a nice car so I'll stay" ?It really ought to take a little more to impress you.
I was responding to a guy who was lamenting that the Republicans, once again, came out with another fat, old white guy. I was merely pointing out that the the talk around the Hill, and the National Republican Club, is that Jindal is a serious contender for VP -- and he is neither fat, old, nor white.
/is/ Indian -- if its "racist" to point that out, then its also racist to say that Obama would be the first "black" president. He's only half, after all.
He
Given her Bobby Kennedy comments, and the fact that that Johnson had JFK shot and HW Bush had Regan shot, I think there is a pretty good precident set for Obama to start thinking the safest thing for him to do is keep Hillary as far away from the line of succession as possible.
I just get a bad feeling off of him. I'll still probably vote for him though.
.45 (best caliber ever!)
I work with a bunch of conservatives, but I'm not really one of them. I don't believe in God but do believe in global warming; I am pro-union, pro-environment, pro-gun, am neutral on taxes (i'm not against them, but I think the money gets spent on dumb shit. Fermi Lab should not have required a philanthropic donation, for instance), against the war, against illegal immigration...
I think the term "radical centrist" describes me pretty well -- I don't really have a moderate view on anything, i just come out in the middle due to averaging.
I don't think Obama is sincere, the company he keeps seriously leaves something to be desired, etc. Then again, the same could be said of McCain.
I was hoping the Bill Richardson would have gotten the Democrat nomination -- I really, really liked him.
Congressman, Ambassador, Secretary of Energy, 2-term governor -- he had all the experience that Hillary claimed was so important. He was also the only candidate to have a 100% NRA rating, and after he signed the concealed carry permit law in New Mexico was the first person to get one, and packs a
Obama's campaign relies on making people "feel good," McCain's campaign relies on the fact that he was in the Navy.
Navy officer trumps god damned lawyer, in my opinion -- but neither of them are Bill Richardson.
Ooops, according to Wiki, is in favor of "intelligent design" in schools and the PATRIOT and REAL ID acts.
On second thought, fuck that guy. I withdraw my previous statement of being "totally OK with him."
On the other hand, he might be able to actually fix the economy.